This Website Advertises A Bunch Of Jobs That Pay In Bitcoin

Despite violent price fluctuations in Bitcoin, it's becoming
increasingly common for individuals to take their salary in the
digital currency.

More than 1,000 people have now registered
for Coinality.com, a site launched
in September that advertises jobs that pay in digital currencies.
At least 700 people have submitted applications
for 350 positions, which can range from Chief
Compliance Officer at a bitcoin trading platform, to programmers
familiar with the customizable part of the Blockchain, the master
ledger for all Bitcoin transactions. More than
200 people have looked at a marketing
position for an independent filmmaker that pays 3 Bitcoin for
three months' work.

Although digital currency-related job postings can be found
elsewhere, and individuals active in the sphere have taken
Bitcoin as salaries for at least months, this appears to be the
first site exclusively devoted to both.

The site was created by Dan Roseman, a web developer based
in Orange County, California who left law school in 2011 after
just a year after not finding it to his
liking. The site is not yet a full-time gig,
and Roseman says he has no plans to monetize it, and for now will
rely on donations (bitcoin, of course, is accepted).

"It's just a service that's
free to use," he told us by phone
recently. That
could change if the site blows up, he added.

In fact, most major digital currency players give their
employees the option to take their salary in Bitcoin. That's true
of Bitpay, one of the world's largest Bitcoin transaction
processing sites. At The Bitcoin Foundation, an organization that
serves as an unofficial custodian for the cryptocurrency. All
employees there get paid exclusively in Bitcoin, a foundation rep
told us. It's also
increasingly common overseas, where the majority of Bitcoin web
development has taken place. According to Martti Malmi, one of
Bitcoin's earliest programmers, executives at Bitstamp,
LocalBitcoins and Finnish site Bittiraha all get paid in
Bitcoin. Malmi himself
said he does too.

Finally, of course there's the Kentucky
police chief we
just profiled who looks to be one of the first people in
his state to do so.